THE HOLY NIGHT: HE IS RISEN – HE HAS WON! This is the night. No one has ever escaped the dungeon of death. The power of hell could not understand what was happening. Like the fourth man in the burning furnace lit by Nebuchadnezzar, this Jesus is walking about freely in the flames of hell […]Read more
Archive: April 2017
John 18: 1 – 19:42 Who would have believed that we wandered so far away from love, from peace, from faith, from hope, and from everything that is beautiful and true; so far that only the death of God could bring us back. But God is love, and the response of evil to kindness, to […]Read more
Exodus 12:1-14, John 13:1-15 The Lord leaves His temple. The altar is laid bare. The tabernacle is empty. In many Catholic Churches, the red light that signifies the presence of Christ is off. The battle to be fought these days will not be in temples or tabernacles made of human hands. The Lord journeys into […]Read more
Matthew 26:14 – 25 Judas betrayed Jesus for thirty piece of silver – the price of a slave. Is that how much Jesus is worth to him? This words apply not only to Judas but to us as well. Have we betrayed him or would we betray him? Whenever I choose to lie, to steal, […]Read more
John 13:21-33, 36-38 Peter was one of Jesus’ companions. He was one of his closest friends. There was no doubt that he loved the Lord. Yet it was to him that the Lord said: “Before the cock crows, you would deny me three times.” His problem was not his love for the lord neither was […]Read more
John 12:1 – 11 Who are we in God’s household? Are we servants or part of His family? Is our relationship with the Lord centred on obligation or on love? The story of Mary and the Alabaster Jar of Ointment gives us the right attitude to have during this holy week. She was again by […]Read more